Liveblogging As the World Turns: Cold Comfort Farm Edition

Two days of Nuke in a row, and this one with some actual "N" to go with the "uke"!

Yes, Noah ventures back to Snyder Farm today to see his beloved Luke ... and it looks like galpal/misery magnet Maddie also stops in to visit, which may lead to some spilled beans about what Noah was up to during his hobo bender after Luke's accident.

To find out what goes down on the farm, click through the jump and refresh for breaking updates!

And away we go...

2:58PM EDT: Luke gives Noah a pep-talk and gives him some playful slaps on the cheek and tenderly fixes his bangs, and asks Noah to help him prove that the man that put him in the wheelchair was wrong about them and everything else. It's actually really sweet. A kiss would have made it perfect!

Maddie says a tearful farewell to Viennry.

Luke says he's got exercises to undo what Captain Pervy did to him, and tells Noah he needs to do what he has to to undo what his dad did to him. He kisses Noah's hand and tells him that they have time.

Leaving the room, Dusty pats Lily on the head and says, "Sweet dreams, sweetie -- tomorrow's gonna be a hell of a day for you ... You drank almost a whole glass of cranapple juice!"

Preview Time! No Nuke tomorrow, but Holden and Lily continue to demonstrate a fraction of the emotional intelligence of their gay teen Temporarylized ® son. 

2:50PM EDT: Luke asks what's up with Noah and Maddie, and Noah tells Luke that he first came to like Luke because he was calm and he wanted to be near that. He tells Luke that Maddie doesn't want Noah near Luke because he can't count on him. Luke is confused.

Noah says that all his life has been a lie and Luke tells him to just spit it out. Noah tells Luke that he went to see Maddie in his hobo episode and tried to sleep with her. Luke is understandably a bit miffed, but he doesn't let Noah say that maybe his dad was right about him being a screwup. Again, Luke's patience amazes me.

Maddie tells Henry that she walked in on Noah and Luke having a "very intimate moment" -- really? Did we miss something? Maybe forehead-sex is the new first base. Vienna arrives without a big cookie and Henry tells Maddie that she's going to meet a rich, good-looking guy at Wesleyan, and that maybe he will too during parents' weekend. Oops, sorry -- not that last part. That was me.

Dusty calls down to get another room for himself to sleep in, and meanwhile Holden is downstairs in the Win Mayer Self-Medication Lounge trying to drink away the image of his wife in cheap terrycloth, when a mysterious blonde woman approaches...

2:37PM EDT: Noah and Luke spot Maddie and they welcome her in. She's brought Luke some DVDs (let me guess: Beautiful Thing, In & Out and The Adventures of Priscilla?) and she lets them know that she may transfer. Noah walks Maddie out and she smacks him with a "right now Luke needs people in his life that he can count on" and flips her hair and leaves. Atta girl!

Henry is bugging out in a cleaning fit of truly OCD proportions -- Vienna brought up the idea of having a kid and has sent him running to hide in "the supply closet" (her words, not mine). Vienna goes to make Maddie a farewell cake. What, they have no big cookie place in this town?

Dusty opens the door to find Holden holding the coffee tray ... and he forgot the Splenda! Holden sees Lily checked out in a terrycloth bathrobe on Dusty's bed and he skates.

2:26PM EDT: Henry is sorry that Maddie is leaving, and even sorrier that his wife can't name a Black Cow when she sees one. They should call this "the Cola episode".

We cut back to Noah and Luke after the physical therapist is gone -- dammit! Luke tells Noah that the therapy scares him because if he tries and he fails then that will just be it for him. Noah offers to help. He tells Luke that the five minutes before his dad did this to Luke was the happiest time of his life. What, when he was getting the tacklebox from the car? Oh, oh, right.

Luke and Noah have a cute moment where they nuzzle one another, just as Maddie enters via the Silent Screen...

Meanwhile, Holden arrives at the hotel and the concierge, looking just like Pee Wee Herman in that scene from Pee Wee's Big Adventure where he plays the bellboy, accidentally lets slip that Lily and Dusty are up to their easily misunderstood yet totally innocuous antics up in Dusty's room. Oops!

Lily sloshes non-wine on her Talbots blouse (which is conveniently the exact same color as the non-wine) just like Susan Sarandon in The Hunger, and Dusty calls down for some coffee. But Holden's already at the door!

2:17PM EDT: Lady D tells Holden that Luke is here (um, he's in the next room, thanks to you) but that he's not talking about physical therapy, but about his parents' problems. Actually, everyone is talking about physical therapy but we're not seeing any. Unfair!

Lily calls down to Adultery Service and orders a nice bottle of wine and tells Dusty that Holden is trying to turn Luke against her. She pours two glasses of the wateriest bordeaux I've ever seen and launches into another pity-party. God, Dusty's a good-looking single guy ... doesn't he have anything better to do than listen this stuff day in and day out?

Noah!

Noah and Luke come into the kitchen where Holden is sulking. Holden says he's heading out but that Luke's therapist should be here soon (Insert Luke/Noah/Bert slashfic HERE).

Maddie tells Henry and Vienna Creme that she might transfer to Wesleyan now that she has the opportunity.

Why is the mousy pregnant girl being assaulted by Mrs. Kardashian?

2:05PM EDT: Babymomma drama, and The Girl Who Reminds Me of Haley Joel Osment starts blaring music to shut up her overbearing friends. I officially love her.

Henry! He's giving his General Foods International Coffees girlfriend fashion advice and a footrub. Shocker. Maddie returns -- yay! She tells them that it's time she finally makes a decision.

Holden and Luke are talking over a can of generic soda, and Lady Drumstick shows up.

Dusty and Lily are in the Adultery Suite overtalking their potential indiscretion like they overtalk everything else.

Lady Drums literally wheels Luke out of the room so she can talk to Holden alone. Nice job, Nana -- way to empower the handicapped.

Lily begs Dusty to help her, just for tonite, and Dusty sighs and asks her what she wants him to do. Who's the hooker now, Dusty?